Improvement in fruning-shears



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Letters Patent No. 106,253,` dated August 9, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN' PRUNING-v-SIIIEARS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame To all u'hom tt may concern:

Beit known -that we, RANSOM BULLARD andGEoRGE E. MILLS, ofLitehield, inthe county of Hillsdale and State of Michigan, have invented a new andvaluable Improvement in Pruning-Shears; and we do -hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruct-ion and operation of the same, reference being hadto theannexed drawing making a part of this specification, and to'the lettersand figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawingis a side View of my iriven tion.

Figure 2 is a central vertical section of the same.

Our invention relates to means for pruning trees. and consists in theconstruction and arrangement ol devices as hereinafter described, andintended toserve as, useful and efficient shears for the purpose named.

A, of the drawing, represents a bar or standard, to the side of which isatt-ached the curved arm 0r braeket B.

C represents a sliding bar, pivoted atits lower end to the lever D, andat its upper end to the arms G G of the shears, in the manner shown.

H is a staple, affixed to the standard A, and serves to hold the slidingbar in position.

The lever D is pivoted to the arm B and the sliding bar C, as shown, andserves as the lever by which the shears are operated. f

The lettere represents a metallic plate, rmly attached to the-standard.

It has a shoulder at c, that serves as a stop for the, upward movementsof the sliding bar, and is grooved out, as shown at y, to provide forholding and operating the blades of the shears, as hereinaftermentioned.

N N represent the two blades of our shears.

They are formed, respectively, of curvedv edges, as shown at w, and arepivotedin the slot j] ofthe plate e. The lower ends of these blades are,respectively, pivoted to the arms G, as represented.

To operate our shears, the limb is grasped vby the curved edges ot' theblades, and the unattached end ot' the lever D forced downward.

If the limb to be out is situated at a great height, we sometimesoperate the lever by a pitman or rod attached' to the end of lever D. Inthat case the shoulder or stop e aids efficiently in operating theshears.

We claim as our invention- The slotted metallic standard plate e, withshoulder c, the shearblades N N, arms G G, bar C, curved arm B, andlever D, all constructed and arranged as described.

In testimony that we claim the above, we have hereunto subscribed ournames in the presence of two witnesses. Y

`RANSOM BULLARD. GEORGE E. MILLS. lVitnesses:

WARREN' JACKSON, JEROME J'AeKsoN Devis.

